asked the Minister for Local Government the controls, if any, that are exercised under the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963, for the preservation of trees.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Preservation of Trees.
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In their development plans planning authorities may include as an objective the preservation and protection of specified woods and trees. This objective may be secured in two ways: (a) Section 45 of the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963, enables planning authorities to make tree preservation orders which can prohibit the cutting down, topping, lopping or wilful destruction of any tree, trees, group of trees or woodlands which the planning authority consider it desirable to protect in the interests of amenity; (b) in granting planning permission for development conditions may be attached requiring the preservation of existing trees on the site, the replacement planting of trees removed in the course of the development, or the landscaping of the site.
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asked the Minister for Local Government if he will place a tree preservation order on the proposed Holmston development at Dún Laoghaire as a matter of urgency.
This is a matter for Dún Laoghaire Corporation as planning authority. I have no power to make tree preservation orders.